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Alfyn - Chapter 3

Welcome to IGN's Walkthrough of Chapter 3 of Alfyn's Story. Below you will find information on how his story progresses, maps of areas and items you'll find along the way, and enemies and bosses you can expect to encounter.

Arriving in Saintsbridge after curing a town of a disease by the hand of a greedy apothecary, Alfyn sees another apothecary refuse to treat a dying man's festering wound, saying his life is not worth saving.

While Alfyn protests, the man stands firm on his decision and walks away, after which Alfyn heals the man's wound himself. He takes the man, Miguel, back to his house to rest and they promise to share a toast once Miguel is on is feet. With the talk of food and drink, Alfyn realizes how hungry he is and decides to go to the tavern.

Head to the tavern, following the marker on your minimap.

Entering the tavern, Alfyn finds a collapsed boy on the floor, but cannot figure out what ails the boy. In steps the apothecary from earlier to take a look, and easily cures the boy of his affliction, to Alfyn's amazement. After healing the boy he introduces himself to Alfyn as Ogen before departing once again. Alfyn decides to see who else needs help.

Follow the green markers on your minimap and use Alfyn's inquire path action to learn information on who needs help.

While helping an old woman, Alfyn asks where he might find a bottle of wine to share with Miguel, and the woman scoffs at the name. Accusations of thievery and murder are brought out of the old woman against the man Alfyn saved. Alfyn is perplexed and leaves with twisted feelings. As he exits her house, Ogen walks up to him. Ogen knew of Miguel's transgressions and saw a hidden dagger upon him and more blood than from his wound, enough evidence to deny him treatment. Alfyn strongly disagrees, claiming they as apothecaries have no right to play god.

Ogen requests Alfyn show him one of his tonics so he can judge his skills. Alfyn obliges and Ogen comments on how though rough around the edges, they show confidence and talent. He tells Alfyn to truly think about what it means to save a life, especially Miguel's life, and makes his way, leaving Alfyn with a moral conundrum. Alfyn decides to go check on Miguel.

Head to Miguel's house following the green marker.

Arriving at Miguel's, Alfyn finds that the wound is worse than he thought. As he is about to apply a stronger medicine, the words of Ogen ring in his head. Alfyn confronts the man on the accusations of those around town.

He confesses to the thievery and murder, swearing that he has three children he needs to take care of. Alfyn agrees to help the man on the condition that he gives up his life of stealing. Alfyn works until all hours of the night healing Miguel, until he wakes up, realizing he's fallen asleep and that Miguel is nowhere to be found.

Locate Miguel using the marker on your minimap.

Alfyn comes upon a scene of Miguel holding a young child hostage, knife at his throat. He says to bring all the mother owns to the Riviria Woods and he'll let the boy live before running off with his hostage. After talking to the boy's mother, Alfyn tells her he'll save the boy. As he runs off, we see Ogen watching Alfyn's actions closely.

Coming upon Miguel in the Riviria Woods, Alfyn confronts him on his horrible actions, even going so far as to stab the young boy to shut him up. Alfyn wants to tend to the boy's wound, and when he says the boy could die, Miguel mistakenly says he has four mouths to feed, when earlier he said three. Caught in his own lies, he admits the fake story, but still feels no remorse. Alfyn finally gives admits that while this was his fault for fixing Miguel, he'll also be the one to fix it!

Miguel's main thing to watch out for is his constant shifting of weaknesses. Because of this, you have to always be prepared to break him using any number of different offensive abilities. Go in with a balanced team for the easiest way to beat him.

We recommend inflicting poison on him to constantly be doing damage. Having a thief to decrease his physical attack is a great way to keep everyone alive as well.

After defeating Miguel, he collapses to the floor and Alfyn goes to check on the boy. After checking that he's still breathing, he goes to work on healing the boy, but says after he's finished that to properly heal, he needs to get the boy to a safer place.

A few days later, the boy Timothy wakes up to his mother standing bedside. The boy asks who the man was that saved him, then the scene cuts back to Alfyn.

Head east toward the green marker.

Alfyn once again runs into Ogen as he's leaving town. Alfyn asks him if he were to do it all over, what he could have done differently, to which Ogen says that life is but a series of choices, and Alfyn made the wrong one here. Ogen says that at one point, he was as indiscriminate as Alfyn and tells a story of how he too treated a known criminal, only to have the fiend murder his wife, and since that day has only saved the lives of those he deems worthy of saving.

He also mentions another apothecary who practiced the way Alfyn does, and in his confusion, Alfyn thinks to his idol and asks what he would do. Still unsure in his actions, Alfyn makes his way to Orewell in the Cliftlands.